Shunting at Ealing Common - a film by Fred Ivey
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- On the evening of September 24th 1993 Fred was at Ealing Common Depot on London Underground District Line to record Metropolitan Railway Locomotive No. 12 Sarah Siddons shunt vintage Q and R stock cars into place ready for the Depot open day the following day.
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I went past Ealing Common sheds twice a day from 1969 until 1976 to and from school. In 1972/3 (?) I saw an 0-6-0 steam loco working there.
The last LT steam train worked in 1971 so unless it was at an open day it wouldn't have been in use
Some Brit trackwork looks as busy as cog-railways do at the switches and diamonds. Lots more rail spiked/pinned all over the ties (sleepers), besides the actual moving points (blades ?). 'Fascinating' from here in Los Angeles California....!
Brilliant video!
Brilliant video
Watching the staff walk over the live rails gives me the cold sweats. Do the boots give ay protection in case you scuff the + rail?
thick socks untill you pass it on
det bedste shunters kommer fra Æling C i fred
Geeezzz !!! What's all that sparking/arching at 9:17 !!!! Never saw NYC subways spark like that !! I'm from New Yawk Ciddy. A' fuhgeddaboudit ! ! And why doesn't anyone say "quite rightly" any longer over there ? Last time I heard that was in "Mellow Yellow" by Donovan in the '1960s !!
Mark Harris Times change. We now say WHATEVER!
OK now I see some buffers. But sure is odd stuff a 4:00. Some sort of draw bar and heavy clamp tightened over them to secure cars together..I love it for railroadiana's sake, but man, what a hassle compared with our lovely American, Janney type knuck knucks and their simple cut levers !! Never understood why some countries never converted...But I enjoy what I'm seeing and hearing here just the same !
Brilliant video!
12:54 looks a bit like a derailment.
No complaint. But I never saw European and British (if you will) rolling equipment without buffers !! But the couplers still don't look like US knuckle types either.. ! So, what are we seeing here, coupler-wise ??
There were several different coupler types in use on the various vehicles in this video. The locomotive (number 12 and named 'Sarah Siddons') has traditional British main line style buffers and screw link couplers, as did brake vans B583 and B584, however those two each had one end converted to have a ward coupler. This was the type used on the earlier multiple unit stock on the Underground, such as the red Q stock cars in the video, and so allowed such cars to be moved around the system between the brake vans, pulled by a locomotive that wasn't fitted with such couplers.
More modern stock used automatic Wedgelock couplers on their outer ends and semi-permanent bar couplings between vehicles in a set. The D stock trains (silver with a half-red front) are an example of this arrangement, as is the older silver R stock car. To enable all these odd cars to be shunted various adaptors had to be used, such as the Ward to Wedgelock seen being fitted at 4:00, or the arrangement seen at 12:00 where an inner end with bar coupling needed to be coupled to an older car fitted with a Ward.
Excellent video!!!
good job Derek!
how old is No 12 now